MORE RARE TROPICAL PLANTS

WHY I DO THIS BLOG ON RARE PLANTS

This blog is a labor of love. Because of my love for unusual, tropical plants and the ways to make them prosper, I searched high and low for information and data on the more obscure denizens of the plant Kingdom my information database grew and I realized that Much of the Data on Obscure Species was Unavailable or written in a cold scientific manner. In Addition, many things in garden books will not tell you of the potentially bad aspects of plant species because they were compiled by people who did not actually grow the plants themselves.Finally,as a gardener of unusual plants, I and others searched relentlessly for species, pictures, seeds, and descriptions of plants that are Unusual and easy to maintain yet many of which are never seen outside of a botanical garden.

I talked to people and found that many of my friends and associates wanted cuttings (and had as much success with them as I did) It occurred to me that there are a great deal of people out there that relish unusual and odd plants but the mainstream Plant distributors only carry "Safe" plants, Yet the dealers who deal in unusual make a killing in the plant business. How are People supposed to know about these Floral finds unless they are exposed to them.

According to the report “State of the worlds plants”by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the United Kingdom, there are about 391,000 species of vascular plants currently known to science. Of these, about 369,000 species (or 94 percent) are flowering plants.

By scanning through several plant databases, including the the Plant List, the International Plant Names Index and the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, the team found that 391,000 vascular plants are currently known to science. Moreover, about 2,000 new plant species are discovered or described every year. Many of these newly described are already on The endangered list

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October rare plant and Halloween madness

Stay tuned in October for out of this world rare plants and displays #plantart #oddities #halloween #oct #plantsofInstagram #tiktok #horror #spooky #Puppy . Here’s some previews of the videos so far.

The next TikTok video will be shot and posted tomorrow with my puppy and her space costume….my whole life is literally out of this world.

Rare bromeliad planter

All of the plants I show tend to be rarities and difficult to find if requested I can let fanatics know where they are

Neoregelia Ampullucea

Bilbergia “ Darth Vader”

Tillandsia usnoides (Spanish moss)

Neoregelia Brevifolia variety …alba

Neoregelia Skotak “flying tiger”

Neoregelia “gizmo“

Bromeliad art

please retweet Comment /share this with a friend if you found it interesting …dropping the sites w no Interaction (they all have different content ) #plantaddict #bromeliads #orchids #neoregelia #epiphyte #plantsofInstagram #plantart #coolplant #plantoftheday

A week of Bromeliad art

Bromeliad convention

Photos from the show

Multiple conference videos

Detailed convention coverage once I get home tomorrow

Highlights of the international bromeliad convention

Hours this show is open to the public

this show is open to the public. I will post daily with photographs from the show

The awards are in

Each day of the show I’ll feature award winning entries. Here’s a quick entry of one of my first prize winners

World Bromeliad conference

World bromeliad conference

Educational Bromeliad displays

Favorite and rare unique bromeliads Opens Thursday tomorrow June 9 I’ll post the events I’ll send out Highlights

Tonight everyone learns what I’m entering into the international bromeliad competition

and all do extensive coverage on all the other exhibitors

International bromeliad convention this week in Sarasota

Dazzling desert denizens

… yesterday at pindersnursery.com I saw these beauties and I could not live without them. Its simply an amazing plant that You would never see or find unless you went to a specialty nursery like Pinders nursery in Palm City.

Echinopsis Species This dazzling Desert denizen Rewards you with 3 to 4 bloom cycles A year. While actively growing… Feed with cactus fertilizer.

Multiple blooms appear ..open and brighten your day but closing at nights. At the end of the day as the flower is closing I pollinate them with an oil paint brush.

Don’t bother to watch this video

Bromeliads orchids and Flair… oh my!

The first entry is random i of what I’ve been doing

Carnivorous extravaganza

Short video

got five different species of carnivorous plants yesterday at pindersnursery.com … and I’m literally in heaven

I’ll send a teaser picture out of the five different species of carnivorous plants… Then I will highlight each species and its quirks.

Detailed research this week

Plants can be anesthetized

Yes plants can be anesthetized ….and scientists have no freaking clue why…

Upcoming Research for presentations

Video of selections of unique Tropical vines And why they are special. Video of noteworthy Florida native plants and unique facts about them. Video of butterfly house and plants Educating how why and where to plant a butterfly garden. Unusual tropical trees that are Suitable ,unusual and useful to be used as specimen plantings. The right plant for the right place makes for a righteous landscape. Video of fern Selection and how to grow them Individual focusing on plant family and the best species The top 10 species names …unique characteristics… And how to grow and propagate them Heliconia,Ginger Bromeliads ,epiphytes Bamboo and more